I can’t tell you about the body, as i’m a fan of film and not digital (i own a medium format hasselblad and a Nikon), but lenses has not changed since i started with photography, around 15 years ago.

Think about what focal you feel confortable with. Could be a 50mm, 35mm, it doesn’t matter, but once you know what is your focal, go and buy a good fixed focal lense. This means, no zoom, no difference focal in the same lense. If possible get a f1.8 or f2.8 (luminous), but try to don’t go up this f value. This will allow you to make photos without flash even late afternoons. Flash is one of the most difficult issues in photography, since the years i’ve seen quite a few photographers that make a really good use of flash. The way to skip the flash is having a good lense.

You can get a cheaper zoom lense, to get some versatility in some moments (like a 28-120mm, f.3.2). A zoom lense under f.2.8 values will raise above the 800$.

i have a nikon d90 and lens wise I have a really wide sigma 10-20mm that I really like. I love that wide open everything in focus shots, but if I were to buy a wide lens again I’d get the tokina 11-16mm.

Fixed I have a 50MM 1.8 (which on my camera is more like a 75mm) and my latest purchase was a 30mm 1.4.

I think everything pezflash said is true. I ditched my “kit” lens for for larger apertures because I hate the flash and shooting indoors with anything less than a f2.8 is absurd. ‘

Congratss! I’ve been wanting to ditch my D90 for the canon but can’t justify the cost of the new camera and swapping lens. Maybe nikon will give us something similar to the 7D (I love the 1080P video that thing shoots).

If you like your camera and you use it, you will. It’s part of the process. You will change your point of view (and your photo’s point of view) while you experience change with it. Be ready to move from one lense to another with the time.

Against what people lately think (since digital jump), lense makes the photography, not the camera body. But about the body, i hope not to create more confussion in your mind, but i would suggest to go a full-frame sensor.